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Welcome to “Onward! A Rose City Podcast”; a place for all your Portland Thorns, Portland Timbers, 107ist, Timbers Army, & Rose City Riveters news, along with stories of our club and culture's history plus a look into the future of soccer support in Portland, Oregon.   ON THIS EPISODE! Thorns update Timbers update ACTS Prideraiser Campaign History of the Portland/Seattle rivalry   LINKS! 107ist.org Join/Renew equitablegivingcircle.org pdxriveters.prideraiser.org https://youtu.be/BgSLaHoBddM https://youtu.be/jB1_gOHo86U   Have any questions or suggestions, email us at onward@107ist.org

Masha Egorenko works at Parkrose Middle School through IRCO as a Slavic Community Coordinator & Youth Advocate. She shares about Slavic culture and community, the history of immigration from the former USSR, ethnic identity, and faith-based values. She talks about what the Slavic community's strengths are and her advocacy efforts to improve school services for Slavic families.

Vietnamese Americans tell us about their first experiences in Portland. They described the communities they found in Northeast Portland, in places like the apartment complex known as Halsey Square, and the Vietnamese Catholic church, Our Lady of Lavang. We also focus on volunteer organizations like IRCO, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, which provided social services in the face of declining federal funding. Featuring: Thuy Dam, Phil Duong, Chau Huyhn, Azen Jaffe, Thi Luong, Chi Nguyen, Jacques Nguyen, Connie Nguyen-Truong, Adele Pham, Vu Pham, Thuy Tu, and Vinh Wong

On this episode of the Non Profit Happy Hour, we turn our focus to the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization and their upcoming bazaar.

This week Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Olivia Katbi Smith and Sahar Muranovic, two former staffers at the Portland-based nonprofit Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO), where management has decided against neutrality in a fierce unionization battle. Olivia is also the co-chair of the Portland, Oregon chapter of the DSA, and in her previous appearance on the show talked about the state of Israel-Palestine discourse and personal smears she’s faced being a vocal Arab woman in the public eye. Sahar begins by sharing her own background as an Iranian immigrant and her firsthand experience of the Trump administration’s repression when her sister Sara Yarjani, a graduate student in California, was briefly deported to Austria after the Muslim ban went into effect in January 2017. Olivia and Sahar both elaborate on what brought them to IRCO, explaining the nonprofit’s day to day function of helping refugees and other immigrants in the Portland area get navigate social services and, increasingly, legal challenges. The gang situates IRCO’s issues within the broader nonprofit problem experienced by cities like Portland where social services have been outsourced from the public sector to private nonprofits where workers don’t have union protections and benefits. Olivia and Sahar explain how this dynamic has resulted in an environment of low pay, little transparency and no input from workers that has led workers to demand a union. Olivia describes how she was fired for her vocal support of the union drive, and Olivia and Sahar detail the union-busting tactics they witnessed before they were forced out, including the hiring of a union-busting law firm with a reputation for violent intimidation. Finally, Olivia and Sahar talk about why it’s essential that the people serving marginalized communities are empowered in their own workplaces, and share their hopes for the future of the IRCO union. Follow Olivia on Twitter @livkittykat and Sahar @Gulujoon. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!

IRCO’s Immigrant Nurse Credentialing Program helps nurses who immigrated from other countries get their credentials in Oregon. The program had its first class of graduates in December. We talk with one of the graduates, Hiromi Comer.

In this segment, I visited Ha Mi Da and her family at her apartment in Southeast Portland. Ha Mi Da came to the United States from a Burmese refugee camp several years ago and I wanted to learn more about her story, her involvement with home visiting services provided by IRCO, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, and her hopes and dreams for the future. Many thanks to Mihaela Vladescu, the family's home visitor with IRCO and Healthy Families Oregon, and Min Sein who provided interpretation services during the visit.

Manuel Padilla leads a conversation between students in the RISE program at David Douglas High School in Portland, OR. These young immigrants and refugees had just seen Portland Art Museum's exhibition, "Common Ground", which features photographs of immigrants and refugees taken by Fazal Sheikh. In this episode, the students discuss their experiences in the RISE program. For more information about Common Ground, visit portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/common-ground For more information about IRCO or the RISE program, visit IRCO.org For more information about Portland Meet Portland, visit portlandmeetportland.org

Manuel Padilla leads a conversation between students in the RISE program at David Douglas High School in Portland, OR. These young immigrants and refugees had just seen Portland Art Museum's exhibition, "Common Ground", which features photographs of immigrants and refugees taken by Fazal Sheikh. In this episode, the students talk about their situations growing up as third culture youth, moving to Portland, and their experiences with this change. For more information about Common Ground, visit portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/common-ground For more information about IRCO or the RISE program, visit IRCO.org For more information about Portland Meet Portland, visit portlandmeetportland.org

Manuel Padilla leads a conversation between students in the RISE program at David Douglas High School in Portland, OR. These young immigrants and refugees had just seen Portland Art Museum's exhibition, "Common Ground", which features photographs of immigrants and refugees taken by Fazal Sheikh. In this episode, we learn about the students and get their initial impressions of the photographs. For more information about Common Ground, visit portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/common-ground For more information about IRCO or the RISE program, visit IRCO.org For more information about Portland Meet Portland, visit portlandmeetportland.org